My archive photographs from Albania, which span twenty years.
We begin in the year 2000 when I lived and worked in Tirana and these first ones are of the two places in Tirana where I spent most of my time, the Rruga Abdyl Frasheri, where I lived in an apartment block (on the eighth floor) and the IRC offices where I worked, in Rruga Mujo Ulqinaku.
Tirana has changed so much in the past twenty years that there are some parts of the city centre which I can barely recognize. The outer appearance does not match the images in my memory. For me, the photographs from 2000 show a vanished time and in some respects, where the cityscape has been so altered, it's like a vanished place as well.
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| Looking down on Rruga Abdyl Frasheri 1 |
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| Rruga Abdyl Frasheri 2 with Dajti mountain in the background |
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| Rruga Abdyl Frasheri 3 |
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| Rruga Mujo Ulqinaku 1 |
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| Rruga Mujo Ulqinaku 2 |
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| Roma musicians in the Rruga Mujo Ulqinaku |
Other street scenes in Tirana.
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| Archway from Rruga Bajram Curri |
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| Fig tree near the Old Stadium (February) |
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| Fig tree in early summer |
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| Buildings on either side of the Lana river. |
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| Lana river in 2000 (left) and today (looking towards Dajte mountain) |
Kruje
Elbasan
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| The mountain road to Elbasan |
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| View of mountains from the road to Elbasan 1 |
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| View of mountains from the road to Elbasan 2 |
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| Entrance to Zera Jete School, Elbasan |
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| Zera Jete School, Elbasan |
The Road South
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| Travelling south from Tirana on the coastal road 2000 |
Shkoder,
Durres
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